Contra Costa County Biography

JOHN M. BEST

Transcribed by Sally Kaleta, December, 2006.

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John M. Best. - Numbered among the successful and enterprising business men of 
Richmond is John M. Best, now the manager, secretary, and treasurer of the Home 
Laundry Company. His laundry experience extends over many years. The institution 
with which he is associated is one of the best in the Bay cities. Mr. Best was 
born on January 22, 1874, in Shasta County, California, where he acquired his 
early education. He is the son of John C. Best, a native of Missouri, who came 
west and located in Carson City, Nevada. Here he operated a store and hotel for 
many years during the pioneer days. He then removed to Shasta County. The 
subject of this sketch removed to Seattle, where he engaged in the laundry 
business, and continued in that calling for eighteen years. Here he mastered the 
laundry business in principle and detail, and his knowledge, combined with the 
spirit of enterprise which actuates him in all that he does, has brought him 
success. Mr. Best came to Richmond in August, 1911, and immediately started the 
Home Laundry Company, and was one of the prime movers in this organization. 
Politically, Mr. Best is affiliated with the Republican party, but has never 
aspired to office. Fraternally, he is a member of the B. P. O. E., and the 
Woodmen of the World. He was united in marriage to Miss Ethel A. Nellie, of 
Seattle, Washington, October 16, 1897. To this union have been born Myrtle, 
Mildred, Jack, and Roy.
 
Source: "The History of Contra Costa County, California", Elms Publ. Co., 1917, 
p. 462.